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Previous Awards

The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

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BIOSIGNALS 2022

Best Paper Award

Adaptive Control of Cardio-respiratory Training in a Virtual Reality Hiking Simulation: A Feasibility Study
Rodrigo Lima, Muhammad Asif, Honorato Sousa and Sergi Bermúdez i Badia

Best Student Paper Award

Bone Conduction Eating Activity Detection based on YAMNet Transfer Learning and LSTM Networks
Wei Chen, Haruka Kamachi, Anna Yokokubo and Guillaume Lopez

Best Poster Award

Heart Rate Estimation based on Optical Flow: Enabling Smooth Angle Changes in Ultrasound Simulation
Henning Schäfer, Hendrik Damm and Christoph M. Friedrich

BIOSIGNALS 2021

Best Paper Award

Assessing Parkinson’s Disease Speech Signal Generalization of Clustering Results across Three Countries: Findings in the Parkinson’s Voice Initiative Study
Athanasios Tsanas and Siddharth Arora

Best Student Paper Award

Evaluation of Stair Climbing as an Approach for Estimating Heart Rate Recovery in Daily Activities
Daivaras Sokas, Andrius Rapalis, Andrius Petrėnas, Saulius Daukantas and Vaidotas Marozas

Best Poster Award

Separating Local and Propagated Contributors to the Behnke-fried Microelectrode Recordings
P. Jurczynski, S. Le Cam, B. Rossion and R. Ranta

BIOSIGNALS 2020

Best Paper Award

The Effect of Maxblur-pooling in Neural Networks on Shift-invariance Issue in Various Biological Signal Classification Tasks
Xianyin Hu, Shangyin Zou, Yuki Ban and Shin’ichi Warisawa

Best Student Paper Award

Recurrent Neural Network for Gait Pathology Detection
Jorge Sanchez-Casanova, Judith Liu-Jimenez, Pablo Fernandez-Lopez and Raul Sanchez-Reillo

Best Poster Award

Indirect Posture Correction System without Additional Equipment using Display Content Rotation
Akira Takahashi, Masahiro Inazawa, Yuki Ban and Shin’ichi Warisawa

BIOSIGNALS 2019

Best Paper Award

Comparing Parkinson's Disease Dysarthria and Aging Speech using Articulation Kinematics
A. Gómez-Rodellar, D. Palacios-Alonso, J. Mekyska, A. Álvarez-Marquina and P. Gómez-Vilda

Best Poster Award

Can Sit-to-walk Assessment Maximize Instrumented Timed Up & Go Test Output?
Slavka Viteckova, Radim Krupicka, Petr Dusek, Patrik Kutilek, Zoltan Szabo and Evžen Růžička

BIOSIGNALS 2018

Best Paper Award

Real-time Low SNR Signal Processing for Nanoparticle Analysis with Deep Neural Networks
Jan Eric Lenssen, Anas Toma, Albert Seebold, Victoria Shpacovitch, Pascal Libuschewski, Frank Weichert, Jian-Jia Chen and Roland Hergenröder

Best Student Paper Award

Feasibility of Labor Induction Success Prediction based on Uterine Myoelectric Activity Spectral Analysis
C. Benalcazar Parra, A. I. Tendero, Y. Ye-Lin, J. Alberola-Rubio, A. Perales Marin, J. Garcia-Casado and G. Prats-Boluda

Best Poster Award

Adaptive Filtering for Electromyographic Signal Processing in Scoliosis Indexes Estimation
Eleonora Sulas, Luigi Raffo, Marco Monticone and Danilo Pani

BIOSTEC 2018

Best Paper Award

A Wearable Silent Speech Interface based on Magnetic Sensors with Motion-Artefact Removal
Lam A. Cheah, James M. Gilbert, Jose A. Gonzalez, Phil D. Green, Stephen R. Ell, Roger K. Moore and Ed Holdsworth

EndoCal 10 Obturation Voids in Root Canal and Isthmus of a Human Premolar: A Synchrotron micro-CT Imaging Study
Assem Hedayat and Pengyu Wu

Supervised Classification of Metatranscriptomic Reads Reveals the Existence of Light-dark Oscillations During Infection of Phytoplankton by Viruses
Enzo Acerbi, Caroline Chenard, Stephan C. Schuster and Federico M. Lauro

A Remote Home Monitoring System to Support Informal Caregivers of People with Dementia
Stefan Lentelink, Monique Tabak, Boris van Schooten, Dennis Hofs, Harm op den Akker and Hermie Hermens

Best Student Paper Award

Building IoT-Enabled Wearable Medical Devices: An Application to a Wearable, Multiparametric, Cardiorespiratory Sensor
Arthur Gatouillat, Bertrand Massot, Youakim Badr, Ervin Sejdić and Claudine Gehin

Graph-Cut Segmentation of Retinal Layers from OCT Images
Bashir Isa Dodo, Yongmin Li, Khalid Eltayef and Xiaohui Liu

Protein Disorder Prediction using Jumping Motifs from Torsion Angles Dynamics in Ramachandran Plots
Jonny Alexander-Uribe, Julián D. Arias-Londoño and Alexandre Perera-Lluna

Automated Measurement of Adherence to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Guidelines using Neurological ICU Data
Anthony Stell, Ian Piper and Laura Moss

BIOSIGNALS 2017

Best Paper Award

A Neural Network Approach for Automatic Detection of Acoustic Alarms
Alex Peiró Lilja, Ganna Raboshchuk and Climent Nadeu

Best Student Paper Award

Flow Parameters Derived from Impedance Pneumography after Nonlinear Calibration based on Neural Networks
Marcel Młyńczak and Gerard Cybulski

Best Poster Award

Linking Non-Extensive Entropy with Lempel-ziv Complexity to Obtain the Entropic Q-index from EEG Signals
Ernane José Xavier Costa, Adriano Rogeri Bruno Tech and Ana Carolina Sousa Silva

BIOSTEC 2017

Best Paper Award

Effects of Configuration and Dimension of Concentric Ring Electrodes in EEnG Recording Applications
V. Zena-Giménez, J. Garcia-Casado, G. Prats-Boluda and Y. Ye-Lin

Localization of Demyelinating Plaques in MRI using Convolutional Neural Networks
Bartłomiej Stasiak, Pawel Tarasiuk, Izabela Michalska, Arkadiusz Tomczyk and Piotr S. Szczepaniak

Protein Disorder Prediction using Information Theory Measures on the Distribution of the Dihedral Torsion Angles from Ramachandran Plots
Jonny A. Uribe, Julián D. Arias-Londoño and Alexandre Perera-Lluna

A Neural Network Approach for Automatic Detection of Acoustic Alarms
Alex Peiró Lilja, Ganna Raboshchuk and Climent Nadeu

Technologies for Ageing in Place to Support Home Monitoring of Patients with Chronic Diseases
Alexandra Queirós, Luís Pereira, Ana Dias and Nelson Pacheco Rocha

Best Student Paper Award

Determination of the Selectivity of Printed Wearable Sweat Sensors
Alicia Zörner, Susanne Oertel, Björn Schmitz, Nadine Lang, Michael P. M. Jank and Lothar Frey

Segmentation of Retinal Ganglion Cells From Fluorescent Microscopy Imaging
Silvia Baglietto, Ibolya E. Kepiro, Gerrit Hilgen, Evelyne Sernagor, Vittorio Murino and Diego Sona

Reconstruction of Mitochondrial Genotypes from Diverse next Generation Sequencing Datasets
Peter Ulz, Michael R. Speicher and Gerhard G. Thallinger

Flow Parameters Derived from Impedance Pneumography after Nonlinear Calibration based on Neural Networks
Marcel Młyńczak and Gerard Cybulski

Healthcare-Oriented Characterisation of Human Movements by Means of Impulse-Radar Sensors and by Means of Accelerometric Sensors
Paweł Mazurek, Jakub Wagner, Andrzej Miękina, Roman Z. Morawski and Frode Fadnes Jacobsen

BIOSIGNALS 2016

Best Paper Award

Extraction of Temporal Gait Parameters using a Reduced Number of Wearable Accelerometers
Mohamed Boutaayamou, Vincent Denoël, Olivier Brüls, Marie Demonceau, Didier Maquet, Bénédicte Forthomme, Jean-Louis Croisier, Cédric Schwartz, Jacques G. Verly and Gaëtan Garraux

Best Student Paper Award

A Simulation-based Methodology to Test and Assess Designs of Mechatronic Neural Interface Systems
Samuel Bustamante, Juan C. Yepes, Vera Z. Pérez and Julio C. Correa

Best Poster Award

Nonlinear Model for Complex Neurons in Biological Visual Visions
Sasan Mahmoodi and Nasim Saba

BIOSTEC 2016

Best Paper Award

Electrochemical Analysis of Accelerated Aging of PEDOT-PTS Coated Screen-printed Electrodes
Nathalia Peixoto, Tjerignimin Silue, Catalina Vallejo-Giraldo and Manus Biggs

Design of Customised Orthodontic Devices by Digital Imaging and CAD/FEM Modelling
Sandro Barone, Alessandro Paoli, Armando Viviano Razionale and Roberto Savignano

Highly Robust Classification: A Regularized Approach for Omics Data
Jan Kalina and Jaroslav Hlinka

ICT-mediated Community Coaching to Improve Physical Activity
Lamia Elloumi, Margot Meijerink, Bert-Jan van Beijnum and Hermie Hermens

Best Student Paper Award

Discontinuous Dielectrophoresis - A Technique for Investigating the Response of Loosely Adherent Cells to High Shear Stress
Rebecca Soffe, Sara Baratchi, Shi-yang Tang, Peter McIntyre, Arnan Mitchell and Khashayar Khoshmanesh

Tackling the Problem of Data Imbalancing for Melanoma Classification
Mojdeh Rastgoo, Guillaume Lemaitre, Joan Massich, Olivier Morel, Franck Marzani, Rafael Garcia and Fabrice Meriaudeau

BioMed Xplorer - Exploring (Bio)Medical Knowledge using Linked Data
Mohammad Shafahi, Hayo Bart and Hamideh Afsarmanesh

A Simulation-based Methodology to Test and Assess Designs of Mechatronic Neural Interface Systems
Samuel Bustamante, Juan C. Yepes, Vera Z. Pérez and Julio C. Correa

Generalizing the Detection of Internal and External Interactions in Clinical Guidelines
Veruska Zamborlini, Rinke Hoekstra, Marcos da Silveira, Cedric Pruski, Annette ten Teije and Frank van Harmelen

BIOSIGNALS 2015

Best Paper Award

A User-centric Design of Permanent Magnetic Articulography based Assistive Speech Technology
Lam A. Cheah, Jie Bai, Jose A. Gonzalez, Stephen R. Ell, James M. Gilbert, Roger K. Moore and Phil D. Green

Best Student Paper Award

Recognizing Hand and Finger Gestures with IMU based Motion and EMG based Muscle Activity Sensing
Marcus Georgi, Christoph Amma and Tanja Schultz

BIOSTEC 2015

Best Paper Award

Noise Analysis of Programmable Gain Analog to Digital Converter for Integrated Neural Implant Front End
Amir Zjajo, Carlo Galuzzi and Rene van Leuken

Content Based Retrieval of MRI Based on Brain Structure Changes in Alzheimer’s Disease
Katarina Trojacanec, Ivan Kitanovski, Ivica Dimitrovski and Suzana Loshkovska

Identifying Aging Genes in the Aging Mouse Hypothalamus Using Gateway Node Analysis of Correlation Networks
Kathryn M. Cooper, Stephen Bonasera and Hesham Ali

Eyetrace2014 - Eyetracking Data Analysis Tool
Katrin Sippel, Thomas Kübler, Wolfgang Fuhl, Guilherme Schievelbein, Raphael Rosenberg and Wolfgang Rosenstiel

Best Student Paper Award

High Voltage Integrated Chip Power Recovering Topology for Implantable Wireless Biomedical Devices
Vijith Vijayakumaran Nair, Jinhwan Youn and Jun Rim Choi

Essential Proteins and Functional Modules in the Host-Pathogen Interactions from Innate to Adaptive Immunity - C. albicans-zebrafish Infection Model
Chia-Chou Wu and Bor-Sen Chen

Recognizing Hand and Finger Gestures with IMU based Motion and EMG based Muscle Activity Sensing
Marcus Georgi, Christoph Amma and Tanja Schultz

Towards Guidelines for the Design of Patient Feedback in Stroke Rehabilitation Technology
Lilha Willems, Daniel Tetteroo and Panos Markopoulos

BIOSIGNALS 2014

Best Paper Award

Observer Design for a Nonlinear Minimal Model of Glucose Disappearance and Insulin Kinetics
Driss Boutat, Mohamed Darouach and Holger Voos

Best Student Paper Award

Synchronization of Electroencephalography and Eye Tracking using Global Illumination Changes
Daniel Siboska, Henrik Karstoft and Henrik Pedersen

BIOSTEC 2014

Best Paper Award

Development of Concurrent Object-oriented Logic Programming System to Intelligent Monitoring of Anomalous Human Activities
Alexei A. Morozov, Abhishek Vaish, Alexander F. Polupanov, Vyacheslav E. Antciperov, Igor I. Lychkov, Aleksandr N. Alfimtsev and Vladimir V. Deviatkov

Infrared Spectral Microimaging - A New Tool to Characterise the Tissue Features in Skin Cancers of Melanoma Type
David Sebiskveradze, Cyril Gobinet, Nathalie Cardot-Leccia, Michel Manfait, Pierre Jeannesson, Vincent Vuiblet and Olivier Piot

A Computational Study to Identify TP53 and SREBF2 as Regulation Mediators of miR-214 in Melanoma Progression
Gianfranco Politano, Alfredo Benso, Stefano Di Carlo, Francesca Orso, Alessandro Savino and Daniela Taverna

Observer Design for a Nonlinear Minimal Model of Glucose Disappearance and Insulin Kinetics
Driss Boutat, Mohamed Darouach and Holger Voos

Feasibility Estimation for Clinical Trials
Zhisheng Huang, Frank van Harmelen, Annette Ten Teije and Andre Dekker

Best Student Paper Award

VLSI Wavelet Denoising of Neural Signals - Critical Appraisal of Different Algorithmic Solutions for Threshold Estimation
Nicola Carta, Danilo Pani and Luigi Raffo

Model-based Approach to Tissue Characterization using Optical Coherence Tomography
Cecília Lantos, Rafik Borji, Stéphane Douady, Karolos Grigoriadis, Kirill Larin and Matthew A. Franchek

Exploring a Sub-optimal Hidden Markov Model Sampling Approach for De Novo Peptide Structure Modeling
Pierre Thevenet and Pierre Tufféry

Synchronization of Electroencephalography and Eye Tracking using Global Illumination Changes
Daniel Siboska, Henrik Karstoft and Henrik Pedersen

Partopens at the Point of Care - Evaluating Digital Pen-based Maternal Labor Monitoring in Kenya
Heather Underwood, John Ong’ech, Sara Rosenblum, Addie Crawley, S. Revi Sterling, John K. Bennett and Maya Appley

BIOSIGNALS 2013

Best Paper Award

Dynamic Data-based Modelling of Synaptic Plasticity: mGluR-dependent Long-term Depression
Tim Tambuyzer, Tariq Ahmed, C. James Taylor, Daniel Berckmans, Detlef Balschun and Jean-Marie Aerts

Best Student Paper Award

Array-based Electromyographic Silent Speech Interface
Michael Wand, Christopher Schulte, Matthias Janke and Tanja Schultz

BIOSTEC 2013

Best Paper Award

Flexible Array of Active Concentric Ring Electrodes for Surface Bioelectrical Recordings - Application to Non-invasive Recordings of EEnG
J. Garcia-Casado, V. Zena, G. Prats-Boluda, Y. Ye-Lin and E. Garcia-Breijo

Qualitative Analysis of Gene Regulatory Networks using Network Motifs
Sohei Ito, Takuma Ichinose, Masaya Shimakawa, Naoko Izumi, Shigeki Hagihara and Naoki Yonezaki

Dynamic Data-based Modelling of Synaptic Plasticity: mGluR-dependent Long-term Depression
Tim Tambuyzer, Tariq Ahmed, C. James Taylor, Daniel Berckmans, Detlef Balschun and Jean-Marie Aerts

Inclusion of Data from the Domestic Domain in the Process of Clinical Decision Making using the Example of a Comprehensive Ambient Energy Expenditure Determination for COPD Patients
Axel Helmer, Frerk Müller, Okko Lohmann, Andreas Thiel, Marco Eichelberg and Andreas Hein

Best Student Paper Award

Bioimpedance Parameter as a Risk Factor to Assess Pine Decay - An Innovative Approach to the Diagnosis of Plant Diseases
E. Borges, M. Sequeira, André F. V. Cortez, H. Catarina Pereira, T. Pereira, V. Almeida, T. M. Vasconcelos, I. M. Duarte, N. Nazaré, J. Cardoso and C. Correia

A Methodology for Optimizing the Cost Matrix in Cost Sensitive Learning Models applied to Prediction of Molecular Functions in Embryophyta Plants
S. García-López, J. A. Jaramillo-Garzón, L. Duque-Muñoz and C. G. Castellanos-Domínguez

Array-based Electromyographic Silent Speech Interface
Michael Wand, Christopher Schulte, Matthias Janke and Tanja Schultz

The PartoPen in Training and Clinical Use - Two Preliminary Studies in Kenya
Heather Underwood, S. Revi Sterling and John K. Bennett

BIOSIGNALS 2012

Best Paper Award

A WEARABLE GAIT ANALYSIS SYSTEM USING INERTIAL SENSORS PART II - Evaluation in a Clinical Setting
A. Sant'Anna, N. Wickström, H. Eklund and R. Tranberg

Best Student Paper Award

AN EFFICIENT STOCHASTIC BASED MODEL FOR SIMULATING MICROELECTRODE RECORDINGS OF THE DEEP BRAIN - Modelling and Analysis
K. J. Weegink, J. J. Varghese, P. A. Bellette, T. Coyne, P. A. Silburn and P. A. Meehan

BIOSTEC 2012

Best Paper Award

AUTONOMOUS SENTINELS FOR THE DETECTION OF INVASIVE PATHOGENS
Howard Clyde Wikle III, Suiqiong Li, Aleksandr Simonian and Bryan A. Chin

A n2 RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION ALGORITHM
Markus E. Nebel and Anika Scheid

A WEARABLE GAIT ANALYSIS SYSTEM USING INERTIAL SENSORS PART II - Evaluation in a Clinical Setting
A. Sant'Anna, N. Wickström, H. Eklund and R. Tranberg

A HEART RATE PREDICTION MODEL FOR THE TELEREHABILITATION TRAINING OF CARDIOPULMONARY PATIENTS
Axel Helmer, Riana Deparade, Friedrich Kretschmer, Okko Lohmann, Andreas Hein, Michael Marschollek and Uwe Tegtbur

Best Student Paper Award

MOBILE, REAL-TIME SIMULATOR FOR A CORTICAL VISUAL PROSTHESIS
Horace Josh, Benedict Yong and Lindsay Kleeman

LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETERS PROTOTYPES VALIDATION USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS
Edite Figueiras, Rita Campos, Ricardo Oliveira, Luís F. Requicha Ferreira, Frits de Mul and Anne Humeau-Heurtier

TWITTER IMPROVES SEASONAL INFLUENZA PREDICTION
Harshavardhan Achrekar, Avinash Gandhe, Ross Lazarus, Ssu-Hsin Yu and Benyuan Liu

BIOSIGNALS 2011

Best Paper Award

BIO-INSPIRED AUDITORY PROCESSING FOR SPEECH FEATURE ENHANCEMENT
HariKrishna Maganti and Marco Matassoni

Best Student Paper Award

OPTICAL METHODS FOR LOCAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY ASSESSMENT
T. Pereira, M. Cabeleira, P. Matos, E. Borges, V. Almeida, J. Cardoso, C. Correia and H. C. Pereira

BIOSIGNALS 2010

Best Paper Award

PROBABILISTIC PATIENT MONITORING USING EXTREME VALUE THEORY - A Multivariate, Multimodal Methodology for Detecting Patient Deterioration

Best Student Paper Award

FEATURE RELEVANCE ASSESSMENT IN AUTOMATIC INTER-PATIENT HEART BEAT CLASSIFICATION

BIOSIGNALS 2009

BIOSIGNALS 2008

BIOSIGNALS 2009

Best Paper Award
DETECTION OF THE CRITICAL POINT INTERVAL OF POSTURAL CONTROL STRATEGY USING WAVELET TRANSFORM ANALYSIS
David J. Hewson, Hichem Snoussi, Jacques Duchêne and Neeraj Kumar Singh

Best Student Paper Award
VARIABLE SUBSET SELECTION FOR BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE - PCA-based Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Selection
J. H. Correia, M. Kamrunnahar, N. S. Dias, P. M. Mendes and S. J. Schiff

BIOSIGNALS 2008

Best Paper Award
NOISE REDUCTION AND VOICE SEPARATION ALGORITHMS APPLIED TOWOLF POPULATION COUNTING
B. Dugnol, C. Fernández, G. Galiano and J. Velasco

Best Student Paper Award
RULE OPTIMIZING TECHNIQUE MOTIVATED BY HUMAN CONCEPT FORMATION
Fedja Hadzic and Tharam S. Dillon